Climax: Kōya partially merges, gaining the ability to summon (spectral beasts of fallen allies). But he loses his memory of Miko and his original goal.
What followed was not peace. It was a treaty written in the language of the city. The Second agreed to withdraw from industrial harvesting in exchange for recognized territories where it could sustain itself—abandoned islands of the old city, disused factories reclaimed as sanctuaries. The corporations were forced to back down in public, their legal teams chastened by the scandal of their plans being exposed. Hayato’s movement became a semi-official body, a council of human and beast, awkward and incomplete. The city called it the Coexistence Council in newspapers that loved tidy words. Ko Beast Overlord 2 Hayato Fukuhara